Notices by Nicholas Sarwark (nsarwark@universeodon.com), page 6

Libertarians should be sincerely grateful to the former President for systematically dismantling fusionism.

Two hours of secret discussion of Libertarian National Committee financial matters without the presence of the Treasurer.

Source: https://groups.google.com/g/lnc-business-list-public/c/-dXUDda0mxU

“No lender should extend credit to the LNC unless or until there is a professional Executive Director brought in to right the ship. No professional Executive Director is likely to take a role answering to a lame duck LNC that has a track record of failure, blame shifting, and firings.”

https://nsarwark.substack.com/p/a-short-primer-on-borrowing-money

Social conservatives and fiscal conservatives are in conflict when it comes to a social safety net.

Fiscal conservatives want a social safety net to be cost effective.

Social conservatives want to spend more tax dollars to keep “undeserving” people from the social safety net.

"We are not destructive by nature but by habit"

The Story of Al Baydha: A Regenerative Agriculture in the Saudi Desert.... https://youtu.be/T39QHprz-x8?si=v4lqoAwtdqoGYH_M

“Cummings’ monologue reflected a popular anti-intellectual strain in contemporary comedy, an art form full of professional talkers who believe they shouldn’t be held responsible for anything they say or do.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jrs-misinformation-campaign-is-fueled-by-comedians

“Voters who want eliminationist violence and bigoted rationales will always support the candidate offering more violence and a more bigoted rationale, no matter how much the candidate offering these things also betrays every other value those voters claim to revere—as I think Republican voters have clearly proved beyond doubt’s shadow by now.”

https://www.the-reframe.com/binaries-and-illusions-of-binaries/

@fu it is not.

Reading the Economist while waiting for a charge off wall power in a BMW i3 on a Sunday morning in Phoenix.

If an organization's leaders are manipulative and abusive and the organization does not remove the manipulative and abusive leaders, that is no longer an organization that people who reject manipulation and abuse can ethically continue to associate with.

This is basic decency.

@fu @nsarwark if I’m not speaking at an event out of the country, I’ll be in DC.

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

https://nsarwark.substack.com/p/on-buying-a-minivan

It’s like they’re making up a #nationalsecurity threat from #China so they can gain control over #TikTok and your #data

🧐 Former Treasury Secretary Steven #Mnuchin is assembling an investor group to buy TikTok https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-03-14/former-treasury-secretary-steven-mnuchin-buy-tiktok #LarryEllison #Oracle #rightwing #farright #billionaires #socialmedia

“the rebel must balance between the evil of the world and the intrinsic evil which every revolt carries, and not cause any unjustifiable suffering”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus

“The connection between libertarianism and race dates back to 1964. After he had the Republican presidential nomination, Barry Goldwater (himself no racist) voted against the Civil Rights Act on libertarian grounds: In a speech co-authored by future Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, he said that “the freedom to associate means the same thing as the freedom not to associate.” In so doing, he transformed the Republican coalition. Eisenhower had gotten about 40 percent of the Black vote in 1956; Nixon in 1960, about a third; Goldwater, 6 percent. Goldwater was the first Republican ever to win in Georgia and the first since Reconstruction to carry Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina. Richard Nixon’s eagerness to woo the voters who had supported George Wallace in 1968 consolidated the racial polarization of American politics.”

https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/3680007-the-libertarian-party-is-collapsing-heres-why/

On observing the inauguration of George H.W. Bush, Wang Huning was impressed by the American tradition of peaceful transfer of authority, “...not that the new president has power, but that the old president thus loses power.”

From the February 24, 2024 Lexington column in The Economist: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/02/22/the-flaws-that-chinas-chief-ideologue-found-in-america

“The purpose of building a reservoir is not to store water, but to irrigate.” -Wang Huning, on American public libraries

“Blanche Ames Ames acquired her distinctive, double-barreled name upon marrying the prominent Harvard botanist Oakes Ames, who came from an unrelated dynastic strand of Ameses. A talented painter, Blanche illustrated some of Oakes’s books about orchids. The Ames mansion at Borderland, their 1,200-acre estate outside Boston, was built entirely of stone to ensure that the library—the filming location for the 2019 movie Knives Out—would be fireproof. Adelbert Ames’s and Benjamin Butler’s Civil War–era swords can still be seen in the foyer. George Plimpton once used one to cut a cake at an anniversary party.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/12/jfk-profiles-in-courage-book-lucius-lamar/675815/